euske/pdfminer

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

PDFMiner is a pure-Python library and CLI tool for parsing PDF documents and extracting text along with layout information such as fonts, positions, and writing direction. It can convert PDFs to text, HTML, or XML and provides an extensible PDF parser, though it is no longer actively maintained in favor of the pdfminer.six fork.

Use cases

• extract text from pdf files in python
• convert pdf to html or xml
• get font and position information from pdf text
• parse pdf layout and structure
• extract table of contents from pdf
• handle cjk and vertical writing text in pdfs
• debug pdf internal structure

When to choose

• you need detailed layout and font metadata from PDFs
• you must support CJK languages or vertical writing
• you want a pure-Python dependency with no native binaries
• you need an extensible PDF parser for custom analysis

When to avoid

• starting a new project - use pdfminer.six instead
• you need OCR for scanned image-based PDFs
• you need actively maintained software with security fixes
• you need high-performance bulk PDF processing

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

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